Solar Farm Australia Tender

Location Australia Scope The plans for the project known as Sun Cable call for a 10-gigawatt-capacity array of solar panels that will spread across 37000 acres. It will be backed up by battery storage to make sure it can supply power 24-hours a day. Electrical lines will then send the electricity to Darwin powering the small city at the top of Australia. Yet the vast majority of the energy will travel through an undersea cable that snakes through Indonesia to Singapore. The group behind Sun Cable stated the solar farm will capture one of the best solar radiance reserves on the planet and provide 20 percent of Singapores electricity replacing its gas-fired power. Sun Cable will start construction in 2023 with commercial operations to start in 2027. The project will employ Australian businesses and personnel and could create thousands of construction and manufacturing jobs in the sparsely populated Northern Territory. The Sun Cable projects follows an equally ambitious project in a dry dusty part of Western Australia where developers want to build a hybrid wind and solar plant to power local industries.